Word: finaling
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Harvard used finesse to outlast the Lions in the second game, exposing Columbia's suspect middle with a steady diet of dinks from Wallace and Wanita Lopeter, who turned in another strong performance. The Crimson strung together the game's final six straight points to cruise...
...Democrats had no more success in keeping their members in line. At a White House meeting, Bush and Foley agreed that the Speaker could offer the Democratic majority a carrot: assurances that the most objectionable details in the plan could be changed in the next two weeks, before the final legislation was to be passed. Foley took this word to the Democratic caucus, along with a strong warning: if Democrats were seen as killers of the deal, they would shoulder the blame for the & paralysis in government. Said one member: "Tom was very emotional, very strong...
...scores of undecided Democrats rushed into the negative column. Of the 25 Democratic incumbents facing stiff challenges this year, none supported the deal. Eight of the 13 chairmen of the appropriations subcommittees, who usually have great power in shaping the details of spending plans, deserted the Democratic leadership. The final tally, shortly after 1 a.m.: 254 to 179 against the measure. The Democrats opposed it 149 to 108, the Republicans...
...described his forthcoming novel, Rabbit at Rest, to a convention of booksellers in June. Some of his market- minded listeners may have wondered if they could find some way that the book could be pitched as anything but . . . depressing. There was no need to worry. This fourth, and presumably final, installment of the life and times of Harold C. Angstrom -- Rabbit Run (1960), Rabbit Redux (1971), Rabbit Is Rich (1981) -- is far more upbeat than its subject matter would seem to warrant. And in the bargain it manages to be both poignant and excruciatingly funny...
Evan B. Rauch '91, a member of the executive board, said yesterday that the tallies in the Cabot House elections appeared to contain errors. Specificially, he said, the final vote count--which gave a narrow victory to Robert A. Martinez '92 over Wayne W. Yu '92--was statistically impossible...